Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

When I try, I fail.
When I trust,
He succeeds.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog - the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, "Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.

Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.

My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls - only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.